Blue disazo dye.



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WILHELM NEELMEIER, HEINRICH JORDAN, AND KARL BEUSNER. OF LEVERKUSEN, NEAR COLOGNE, GERMANY, ASSIGNORS TO SYNTHETIC PATENTS CO., INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BLUE DISAZO DYE.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, )VILHELM NEEL- .un nlz, HEINRICH JORDAN. and KARL Huts- XER, citizens of the German Empire, residing at Leverkusen, near Cologne, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Blue Disazo Dye, of which the following is a specification.

We have found that new and valuable dis azo dyestuffs capableof being further developed can be obtained by coupling the diazo compound of an orthodisubstituted acidyl-para-phenylenediamin having most probably the following general formula:

(X and Y being substituents e. g. alkyl, oxyalkyl, halogen) such as the 5-amino-4- chloro-Q-acetylmnino-1-phenolmethylether with a l 'amino-2-naphtholether6-sulfonic acid (R means an alkyl) Specification of Letters Patent.

able developers. such as beta-naphthol, into bright greenish-blue shades fast to washing which can be discharged with hydrosulfite to a pure white.

In order to illustrate the new process more fully the following example is given, the parts being by weight: 22.4 parts of 5 amino chloro-Q-acetylamino-l-phenolmethylether are dissolved in 700 parts of water with the addition of sodium carbonate to a neutral solution. The solution is cooled with ice to 1015 (land diazotized with 3L5 parts of hydrochloric acid (19 B.) and 6.9 parts of sodium nitrite. The .diazo compound is added at a temperature of 1015 C to a solution containing 8.5 parts of sodium acetate and 28.9 parts of 1-amino-2-naphtholethylether-fi-sulfonic acid (sodium salt). The resulting intermediate compound separates. It is filtered ofi', stirred up with Water and ice and is converted into the sodium salt by adding to the suspension at 0 50 parts of caustic soda lye (16 per cent). Subsequently it is further diazotized by means of 6.9 parts of sodium'nitrite and 85 parts of hydrochloric acid" (19 Be) The diazo compound is then added to a solution of 24.6 parts of I-naphthol-l-sulfonic acid (sodium salt) containing 69 parts of soda. The dye is salted out and heated to boiling during A; hour with caustic soda lve to split off the acetyl group. After cooling it is separated by neutralizing the alkaline solution.

Our new product is a dark powder soluble in concentrated sulfuric acid with a bluish coloration dyeing cotton blue which after diazotation and development with beta-naphthol changes into a beautiful Fatentcd Jan. 25, 1916.-

Application filed January 29, 1915. Serial No. 5,032.

bright greenisl1-blue fast to washing. The

new dye-has in a free state most probably the formula:

It is soluble in Water with a bluish coloration, yielding upon reduction with zinc powder and ;acetic acid2.5-diamino-4-chloro-1- anisol, 1.4 diamino-2-ethoxynaphthalene-6- sulfonic acid and"-2-amino-l-naphthol-t-sulfonic acid. As first component another of the above cited compounds can be used e. g. 5 amino-4-1nethyl-2acetylamino 1 phenol- Inethylether. We claim v 1. The herein described new disazo dyestuffs which are after being dried and puls verized in the shape of their alkali metal salts dark powders soluble in water generally with a bluish coloration; yielding upon reduction With zinc powder and acetic acid an ortho-disubstituted para-phenylenediamin,- an 1; l-diamino-2-naphtholether-G-sulfonic acid and 1-hydroXy-2-aminoaphthalene--sulfonic acid; dyeing cotton generally blue shades which can be converted by diazotizing them on fiber and after treatment with beta-11a hthol into bright greenish -blue I shades ast to washing which can be discharged with hydrosulfite to a pure white, substantially as described.

2. The herein described new disazo dye stuffs which are after being dried and pulverized in the shape of their alkali metal salts dark powders soluble in water generally with a bluish coloration; yielding upon reduction with zinc powder and acetic acid a Q-alkoxy-1.4-phenylenediamin substituted in the 5-position, an l.4:diamino-2- naphtholether-6-sulfonic acid and l-hydroxy-Z-aminonaphthalene-4-sulfonic acid; dyeing cotton generally blue shades which can be converted by diazotizing them on fiber and after-treatment with beta-naphthol into 'bright greenish-blue shades fast to washing which can be discharged with hydrosulfite to a purewhite, substantially as described.

3. The herein described new disazo dyestuffs which are after being dried and pu verized in the shape of their alkali mei salts dark powders soluble in water gel erally with a bluish coloration; yielding fiopies of this patent may be obtained for drosulfite to a pure white substantially as described.

4. The herein described new disazo dyestuff which has in a free state most probably the formula;

v scan l SOaH and which is after being dried and pulverized in the shape of 'its sodium salt a. dark powder soluble in-in concentrated sulfuric acid with a bluish coloration; yie ding upon reduction with zinc powder and acetic acid 2.5-diamino-at-chloro-l-ani ol, l/l-diamino-Z- ethoxynaphthalene-G-sulfo ic acid and 2- amino-l-naphthol--sulfonic acid; dyeing cotton blue shades .Which after diazotation [Ls] HEINRICH JORDAN. [n a] KARL HEUSNER. [1. s.]

lVitnesses HELEN NUFER, ALBERT NUFER.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner 01 Patents, Washington, I). C.

. '80 and development with beta-naphthol change 

